Business: Armour Honor

Recently Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour, widow of the packer who died at the
Carlton, London (TIME, Aug. 29), spoke of a great family's honor and
of her decision to wipe out $18,000,000 of claims that had accumulated
against his estate. Said she then:

"I will say this, that my own upbringing in New England was of so
strict a nature that to me a debt is hateful. I would not rest, and I
know my husband could not in his grave, if he knew others were
suffering because of investment in anything for which he...